Finance & Strategy Analyst

<h2><strong>Who we are </strong></h2> <h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.</span></p> <h3><strong>About the team</strong></h3> <p>The Finance &amp; Strategy team is an integral thought partner to Stripe’s core functional leaders.&nbsp; We bring understanding and predictability to Stripe’s bottom line financials.&nbsp; We work cross functionally across many surfaces at Stripe and help steward Stripe’s resource investments to improve the durability of our long term financial performance.</p> <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2> <p>We're looking for a F&amp;S Analyst to join our growing teams on the Go-to-Market (GTM) and Partnerships teams. This individual will help us with the forecasting budgeting and reporting for various departments accurately and in a timely manner and deliver improvements in our integrated financial systems with business partners, financial colleagues, and engineers.</p> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Leverage your financial background to support and influence key strategic and business decisions</li> <li>Design and provide analytical rigor to measure efficiency and ROI of investments in headcount and non-headcount expenses</li> <li>Drive reporting, process and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decision-making (e.g. budget, forecast, monthly reviews, long-range plans)</li> <li>Build and own models for in-depth analyses, as well as ensure their quality, timeliness, and accuracy</li> <li>Define metrics and leading indicators of business performance</li> <li>Partner with cross functional teams, such as Data Science, to develop reporting dashboards</li> <li>Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification and reporting enhancements.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.</span></p> <h3><strong>Minimum requirements</strong></h3> <ul> <li>4-6 years of relevant experience in strategic finance or FP&amp;A&nbsp;</li> <li>A keen analytical eye and experience building integrated models from scratch (in Excel, or other planning applications)</li> <li>Experience driving and executing on finance processes (e.g. budget, forecast reviews, negotiations)</li> <li>A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners</li> <li>A proven ability to be a self starter capable of driving business results without significant supervision</li> <li>The ability to maintain high performance under tight timelines and a “roll up your sleeves” mindset to get any job done</li> <li>The ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas of opportunity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment</li> <li>Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal.</li> <li>Excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to work independently, analyze problems and data sets to make complex investigation decisions</li> <li>Strong knowledge of GSuite tools, Salesforce and MS-Office products and experience working with/analyzing contracts and large data sets using SQL.</li> <li>Independently analyze and evaluate information from various data sources to determine a course of action for a matched case</li> <li>Demonstrated experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders</li> <li>Demonstrated history of taking on various types of challenging projects and producing results</li> <li>Solution-oriented mindset with enthusiasm for establishing best practices</li> <li>Self-disciplined, diligent, proactive and detail oriented</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Preferred qualifications</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Experience working at a high-growth technology or financial services company</li> <li>Experience managing headcount and operating expenses</li> <li>Experience supporting Go-to-Market, Investment Banking, and/or Product Functions</li> <li>Oracle, Anaplan, Tableau or other equivalent application experience</li> <li>Experience with Python or a willingness to learn</li> <li>Experience in data visualization and dashboarding</li> </ul>